Re: [PATCH v9 0/8] KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM

Isaku Yamahata
2022-11-08T00:41:56Z

On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 05:43:52PM +0530,
Vishal Annapurve <vannapurve@google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 8:48 PM Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > This patch series implements KVM guest private memory for confidential
> > computing scenarios like Intel TDX[1]. If a TDX host accesses
> > TDX-protected guest memory, machine check can happen which can further
> > crash the running host system, this is terrible for multi-tenant
> > configurations. The host accesses include those from KVM userspace like
> > QEMU. This series addresses KVM userspace induced crash by introducing
> > new mm and KVM interfaces so KVM userspace can still manage guest memory
> > via a fd-based approach, but it can never access the guest memory
> > content.
> >
> > The patch series touches both core mm and KVM code. I appreciate
> > Andrew/Hugh and Paolo/Sean can review and pick these patches. Any other
> > reviews are always welcome.
> > - 01: mm change, target for mm tree
> > - 02-08: KVM change, target for KVM tree
> >
> > Given KVM is the only current user for the mm part, I have chatted with
> > Paolo and he is OK to merge the mm change through KVM tree, but
> > reviewed-by/acked-by is still expected from the mm people.
> >
> > The patches have been verified in Intel TDX environment, but Vishal has
> > done an excellent work on the selftests[4] which are dedicated for this
> > series, making it possible to test this series without innovative
> > hardware and fancy steps of building a VM environment. See Test section
> > below for more info.
> >
> >
> > Introduction
> > ============
> > KVM userspace being able to crash the host is horrible. Under current
> > KVM architecture, all guest memory is inherently accessible from KVM
> > userspace and is exposed to the mentioned crash issue. The goal of this
> > series is to provide a solution to align mm and KVM, on a userspace
> > inaccessible approach of exposing guest memory.
> >
> > Normally, KVM populates secondary page table (e.g. EPT) by using a host
> > virtual address (hva) from core mm page table (e.g. x86 userspace page
> > table). This requires guest memory being mmaped into KVM userspace, but
> > this is also the source where the mentioned crash issue can happen. In
> > theory, apart from those 'shared' memory for device emulation etc, guest
> > memory doesn't have to be mmaped into KVM userspace.
> >
> > This series introduces fd-based guest memory which will not be mmaped
> > into KVM userspace. KVM populates secondary page table by using a
>
> With no mappings in place for userspace VMM, IIUC, looks like the host
> kernel will not be able to find the culprit userspace process in case
> of Machine check error on guest private memory. As implemented in
> hwpoison_user_mappings, host kernel tries to look at the processes
> which have mapped the pfns with hardware error.
>
> Is there a modification needed in mce handling logic of the host
> kernel to immediately send a signal to the vcpu thread accessing
> faulting pfn backing guest private memory?

mce_register_decode_chain() can be used. MCE physical address(p->mce_addr)
includes host key id in addition to real physical address. By searching used
hkid by KVM, we can determine if the page is assigned to guest TD or not. If
yes, send SIGBUS.

kvm_machine_check() can be enhanced for KVM specific use. This is before
memory_failure() is called, though.

any other ideas?
--
Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@gmail.com>